Texas Composter Grows With Biosolids
With last year’s drought and ban on burning, New Earth began doing off-site grinding. Its new Morbark horizontal grinder on tracks facilitates processing at other locations.

New Earth Compost and Soils upgraded its Conroe facility to process biosolids and added a mobile horizontal grinder to increase its off-site processing services.
Larry Trojak
BioCycle May 2013, Vol. 54, No. 5, p. 24
Commentary: Biogas Council State Legislative Update
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Norma McDonald
BioCycle May 2013, Vol. 54, No. 5, p. 44
Kitchen Academy Combines Food Rescue + Job Training
Since 2009, twelve 13-week sessions have been conducted at the Community Kitchen Academy, graduating 87 students with an 86 percent success rate in job placement or continuing education.

Nate Clark
BioCycle May 2013, Vol. 54, No. 5, p. 18
Food Recovery In San Diego
With 14.8 percent of the San Diego region in the food insecure individuals category, increasing food donation is an integral part of the city’s organics program.

Source reduction, diverting for reuse and composting are the best combined practices for food scraps management. This article highlights food donation potential in the City of San Diego.
Ana Carvalho
BioCycle March 2013, Vol. 54, No. 3, p. 33
Next Frontier Of Organics Recycling In California
The Clean World anaerobic digester installation at the South Area Transfer Station in Sacramento is designed to process 100 tons/day of source separated organics.

To achieve its 75 percent goal, CalRecycle estimates California will need to move about
22 million more tons of organics and other recyclables from disposal to recycling annually.
Caroll Mortensen
BioCycle March 2013, Vol. 54, No. 3, p. 29